Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. Edmund Burke passion condolences sympathy Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. Edmund Burke half evil years Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke perseverance sad inspiring It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. Edmund Burke design real men All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society. Edmund Burke trust power ideas Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without. Edmund Burke passion mind men When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be. Edmund Burke hypocrite christian house He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates. Edmund Burke aids understanding use It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned. Edmund Burke real heart character There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs. Edmund Burke design judgement disappointment A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. Edmund Burke hate hatred order It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke statistics greatness nature All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. Edmund Burke good-man evil men [Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil. Edmund Burke marijuana weed inspirational Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one. Edmund Burke admiration made happiness Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature. Edmund Burke decision men past Ambition can creep as well as soar. Edmund Burke creeps business ambition The wisdom of our ancestors. Edmund Burke ancestor wisdom Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. Edmund Burke care men hands Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be. Edmund Burke teaching men ideas
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